Granicus Quotes & Sayings

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly. — Lauren Oliver

I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you're in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick — Phillip Lim

I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard. — John Irving

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king. — Philip Sidney

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. — Arthur Erickson

We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association."
"-the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic- — Philip Roth

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries. — Phillip Adams

The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution. — Hooman Majd

At an emotional level, we feel that things should be happy and when things are difficult or painful, something is wrong. According to the Buddhist teachings this is what causes suffering. — Krissy Pozatek

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws. — Melissa De La Cruz

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran

I allowed him to carry me down the stairs but was surprised when he didn't make it to the sofa. — K.A. Poe

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family. — Mike Bryan

I don't enjoy sparring with the audience. It devastates me. — Janeane Garofalo